On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:07:06 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2021-02-21 3:05 p.m., Bryan Simmons wrote:
>> On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:36:15 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>> You're back to your retarded Usenet provider.
>>>>
>> I'm sure that folks who have a loved one with Down Syndrome
>> appreciate your choice of adjectives. That's a playground word.
>
>Well, that is their problem for choosing to be offended. Mentally
>retarded was a perfectly acceptable term that described their cognitive
>ability. Unfortunately, every time they had a label for degrees of
>mental ability it would eventually become a pejorative. Before that they
>had labeled them as idiots, simpletons and moron.
>
>
>Mentally was only recently officially replaced by mental disability.
>Mark my words. It won't be long before mental disability becomes a
>pejorative and they will have to come up with a new label for mentally
>retarded.

The woke people will never be happy. They'll always find new things to
be offended by. It's what they get out of bed for in the morning.